DT Teacher Talks: Dealing with Perfectionism and Performance Anxiety

In this live hour-long Zoom discussion, Dance Teacher’s editorial director, Reanne Rodrigues, joins Kathleen McGuire Gaines, dance writer and founder of Minding the Gap, and Elizabeth K. Hutter, PsyD, principal of the New Ballet School and president of the American Psychological Association in Performance Psychology, to discuss how perfectionism in the dance world can negatively impact students’ mental health and offer solutions for dealing with performance anxiety while achieving a high level of dance quality. Attendees will also be able to ask questions in real time.